The Obama administration is going all out to attract Chinese companies to invest in the U.S., but at the same time, it has rebuffed the efforts of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to obtain contracts with major U.S. Internet providers or to take over U.S. telecom companies. At this event, a panel of experts will analyze the issues from both an economic and a security perspective.

Criticisms of CIA interrogations are riddled with inaccuracies, as demonstrated by a dishonest, error-filled review that provides a textbook case of this problem.

At this AEI event, housing policy experts will discuss the condition of the housing market and evaluate policy proposals. Mark Fleming, chief economist at CoreLogic, will describe the current status and outlook of the US housing market. Christopher J. Mayer of Columbia University will present the refinance proposal that he and R. Glenn Hubbard of AEI and Columbia University first offered in 2009. AEI’s Phillip Swagel, assistant secretary for economics at the Treasury Department during the financial crisis, will assess the Hubbard/Mayer proposal and other policy options and Steve Liseman from CNBC will comment on the broader macroeconomic impact of these policies and expectations from Wall Street.

To open things up, the government--which is already financing nearly 19 out of every 20 new mortgages--needs to help struggling homeowners get more manageable monthly payments.

If we can stop the decline in home prices, we can stop the crisis.

Economic instability has spread beyond housing, but housing is the place to fix it.

Leading WTO and trade-law experts will address whether legislative proposals would violate existing WTO rules and whether a U.S. case against Chinese currency practices could succeed before the WTO.

Daniel Gros and Thomas Mayer's proposal to set up a European Monetary Union might have had some merit at the time of the euro's launch in January 1999. However, over the past decade, the world has changed fundamentally in a way that today renders their proposal a nonstarter.